Bedstead



(No Model.)

J. T DETTERER. BEDSTEAD,

No. 337,933. Patented Mar. 13. 1333.

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UNITED STATES iArnNT FFICE.

JOHN T. DETTERER, OF W'ILLSHIRE, OHIO.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 337,936, dated March 16, 1886 Application filed March 12, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. DETTERER, a citizen of the United States, residing at WVillshire, in the county of Van Wert and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bedsteads of the construction described and shown in my Letters Patent of the United States, dated April 17, 1883, No. 275,894; and it consists, essentially, in the combination of a series of slats flexibly connected together, with the head and foot board of a bedstead, and sheet-metal slat-supports constructed for longitudinal adjustment and provided with retainingdevices for the end slats of the series, said slat-supports being detachably connected with said head and foot boards, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of so much of a bedstead as will illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is a like View of the under side of one of the slat supports, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section thereof.

In my Letters Patent above referred to I have described a spring-support provided with a T-head adapted to be coupled to a forked coupling secured to the cross-rails of the head and foot boards, respectively.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, I have simplified this construction of coupling by simply slotting the heads a of the slatsupports A, as at a, so as to adapt them to be hooked onto a retaining device-such as a hook, B-two of which latter are secured to the head and foot boards H and F, respectively.

To avoid lateral movement of the slat-supports, I prefer to form the hook 13 square in cross-section, the heads of the supports A. having corresponding slots, a, formed therein.

Serial No.158,503. (No model.)

These supports A are made of two parts, arranged to slide upon each other in any convenient manner. As shown, one of the sections has downwardly-projecting flanges a on opposite sides, which are bent inwardly to form a groove, in which the other section slides. This latter section has a longitudinal slot, a through which passes the screw e,that carries the thumb-nut O, by means of which the two sections are clamped together when adjusted to the length of the bedstead to which the supports are applied.

Other well-known constructions may be resorted to to adapt the two sections to slide upon each other and fasten them together, and I do not wish to limit myself to the construction shown and described.

In practice I form the support of spring metal, for the purpose of giving a certain elasticity to the slat-support, as described in my Letters Patent above referred to.

D D are the slats, which are flexibly connected together by means of ribbons or bands or straps d, of any suitable flexible or elastic material, and secured equidistant from one another by fastening the flexible material to or in the slats. As shown, the end slats only are secured to the supports A,which are provided with a hooked retaining device, a, near their ends for this purpose, by which said end slats are secured in position, the stress on the flexible material tending to hold them to their retaining devices.

The slats may be made of wood or of an elastic material, such as spring sheet metal, and form, in conjunction with their supports, an elastic bed-bottom. Any other means may, however, be employed to secure the end slats in position.

I do not herein desire to claim the construction of the bed or slat-supports shown in patents to Mueller, No. 272,076, February 13, 1883; \Vard and Bennage, No. 82,457, September 22, 1868; Beach, No. 162,604, April 27, 1875; Sabin, No. 8,190, July 1, 1.851, and in English Patent No. 1,708 of 1861.

Having described my invention,what I claim In a bedstead, the combination, with the head and foot boards provided with hooks B, and the sheet-metal slatsnpports A, having slots a and retaining devices a, said slat-sup In testimony whereof I aff x my signatuie ports being constructed forlongitudinnl adjustin presence of two witnesses. ment, of the bed-slats D, flexibly connected together, as set forth, and detachably held to JOHN DETIERER" 5 the supports A by the said retainingdevices Witnesses:

a, said parts being constructed-and arranged FRED HAFFNER,

substantially as and for the purpose speified. S. F. KELLEY. J 

